The Southern Soldier Boy: A Thousand Shots for the Confederacy

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The Southern Soldier Boy

A THOUSAND SHOTS FOR THE CONFEDERACY

By

By

JAMES CARSON ELLIOTT,

Company F, 56 Regiment N. C. T., C. S. A., 1861-’65, SHELBY, N. C.

Historical Incidents, Reminiscences and Personal Experiences, Covering the nine months siege of Petersburg and both Prison Pens, etc., etc. Plain facts more interesting than Fiction, all from the standpoint of a Private Soldier

Historical Incidents, Reminiscences and Personal Experiences, Covering the nine months siege of Petersburg and both Prison Pens, etc., etc. Plain facts more interesting than Fiction, all from the standpoint of a Private Soldier

Company F, 56 Regiment N. C. T., C. S. A., 1861-’65, SHELBY, N. C.

Historical Incidents, Reminiscences and Personal Experiences, Covering the nine months siege of Petersburg and both Prison Pens, etc., etc. Plain facts more interesting than Fiction, all from the standpoint of a Private Soldier

Historical Incidents, Reminiscences and Personal Experiences, Covering the nine months siege of Petersburg and both Prison Pens, etc., etc. Plain facts more interesting than Fiction, all from the standpoint of a Private Soldier

PREFACE.

THE SOUTHERN SOLDIER BOY.

Jamestown and Its Significance.

The Jamestown Exposition.

A Tribute to Virginia.

History of Co. F.

Supplemental to History of Company F.

Confederate Monument at Shelby.

A Patriotic Recruit.

A Bad Case of Itch.

Longstreet’s Corps Was on the Way to Chickamauga.

Shooting an Outlaw.

Removing Federal Prisoners From Richmond, Va., to Andersonville, Ga., February and March, 1864.

Navigating the Appomattox River.

Incidents on the Lines.

Reminiscences of Point Lookout Prison.

A Negro Sergeant Who Claimed He Carried White Ladies’ Hair.

Begging Crumbs From a Negro’s Table.

Two Patriotic Soldiers and One Who Was Out for the Bounty.

On the Wharf Detail and Wanting to Steal Something from Uncle Sam’s Plentiful Stores.

The Invasion of Home Land After Lee’s Surrender.

A Faithful Negro Servant.

Would Not Let Them Take All the Meat the Man Had.

Confederate Troopers Commit Outrages, Plunder and Murder.

A Hearty Conscript.

Scenes at Appomattox—stragglers in the Union Army.

A Patriotic Darkey.

An Aggrieved Union Soldier Seeks Sympathy From His Southern People.

Field Officers of Fifty-sixth Regiment North Carolina Troops.

A True Virginia Boy and a Bit of Romance.

Col. Billy Miller’s Upright Farm in the Upright Regions of Cleveland County, and How He Came to Own it, with Sketches of the County and Some of its People.

Uncle Abe Wallis Visits Washington.

An Irish Socialist.

Seven Days’ Fight Around Richmond.

The Negro Problem.

Jamestown and Its Significance.

The Jamestown Exposition.

A Tribute to Virginia.

History of Co. F.

Supplemental to History of Company F.

Confederate Monument at Shelby.

A Patriotic Recruit.

A Bad Case of Itch.

Longstreet’s Corps Was on the Way to Chickamauga.

Shooting an Outlaw.

Removing Federal Prisoners From Richmond, Va., to Andersonville, Ga., February and March, 1864.

Navigating the Appomattox River.

Incidents on the Lines.

Reminiscences of Point Lookout Prison.

A Negro Sergeant Who Claimed He Carried White Ladies’ Hair.

Begging Crumbs From a Negro’s Table.

Two Patriotic Soldiers and One Who Was Out for the Bounty.

On the Wharf Detail and Wanting to Steal Something from Uncle Sam’s Plentiful Stores.

The Invasion of Home Land After Lee’s Surrender.

A Faithful Negro Servant.

Would Not Let Them Take All the Meat the Man Had.

Confederate Troopers Commit Outrages, Plunder and Murder.

A Hearty Conscript.

Scenes at Appomattox—stragglers in the Union Army.

A Patriotic Darkey.

An Aggrieved Union Soldier Seeks Sympathy From His Southern People.

Field Officers of Fifty-sixth Regiment North Carolina Troops.

A True Virginia Boy and a Bit of Romance.

Col. Billy Miller’s Upright Farm in the Upright Regions of Cleveland County, and How He Came to Own it, with Sketches of the County and Some of its People.